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The 9:59 mile thread. How hard can it be?

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LazyDaisy Mar 2016 9:04pm, 12 Mar 2016 13,591 posts	Quote Pin LazyDaisy Excellent, BL!
Maz Heeps Mar 2016 9:25pm, 12 Mar 2016 7,854 posts	Quote Pin Maz Heeps Pardon my French, but holy shit big leggy!!!!!!!!
bigleggy Mar 2016 9:41pm, 12 Mar 2016 5,673 posts	Quote Pin bigleggy Yup - that was my reaction when I saw that first mile too Paid for it later on !!!
Alice the Camel Mar 2016 9:41am, 17 Mar 2016 2,606 posts	Quote Pin Alice the Camel I haven't forgotten about this thread! Puppy matters have distracted me a bit over recent weeks, but I managed a 10:15 mile on this morning's run. Chipping away at it The next mile was 10:45, then finished with a 10:33.
bigleggy Mar 2016 11:11am, 17 Mar 2016 5,681 posts	Quote Pin bigleggy Well Done Alice - won't be long now before we have another graduate
Columba Mar 2016 11:45am, 17 Mar 2016 9,444 posts	Quote Pin Columba Half marathon now done and dusted, and PT son is threatening me with speedwork as I'm targeting a 10k later in the year, so I'll continue haunting the thread.
LazyDaisy Mar 2016 7:25pm, 17 Mar 2016 13,630 posts	Quote Pin LazyDaisy I haven't gone to track tonight - had a very upset tummy all day :-(. It sounded like quite a tough pyramid session and I wanted to see how I coped with it so I'm disappointed.
Columba Mar 2016 10:32pm, 17 Mar 2016 9,450 posts	Quote Pin Columba The right decision, though.
steve45 Mar 2016 11:15am, 26 Mar 2016 614 posts	Quote Pin steve45 The tired way I'm running this last few weeks makes this a target to go for! 9.59....I'll have to dig-in a bit....
Columba Mar 2016 12:24pm, 26 Mar 2016 9,532 posts	Quote Pin Columba Ok, I have been back to the beginning of the thread and discovered that I should start by running for 2 and a half minutes at a hardly comfortable pace, with focus on thinking tall and using arms, that 21/2 mins to be embedded in a longer run (a mile or more). I won't be doing it today, nor (probably) tomorrow but Monday looks likely. Also quite chuffed to find that despite my IT idiocy I am better at getting my Garmin to do what I want it to do than some other people on this thread seem to be.